Bird Stories

In Christmas-tree Land, a tiny black-capped preacher begins Christmas morning singing his own name—then finds every breakfast locked beneath a coat of ice.

In this early-twentieth-century collection, Edith M. Patch opens among firs bright with snow and ice, where Chick, D.D., faces a Christmas morning with nothing to eat. The cheerful little bird searches the birches, sumachs and willows, but each pantry is sealed fast; hunger matters more than the bitter cold. Then a great boom rolls across the field, and a Farmer Boy arrives carrying gifts for the birds. Chick knows the boy’s whistle and flies toward the orchard. What welcome surprise is waiting there for him?

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